Last week’s posts on Moon of Alabama:
- Feb 9 – ‘Trump Administration Asserts Ambition To Dominate Energy Sector’
Related:
– Marco Rubio Is Rebooting the Neocons for the MAGA Era (archived) – Bloomberg
– Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Munich Security Conference – Dep. of State
– US undermines democracy to promote Maga to the world (archived) – Financial Times
- Feb 10 – Smearing Chomsky For His Friendship With Epstein Is A Disgrace
Related:
– How Jeffrey Epstein Got So Rich – Forbes
– How Jeffrey Epstein Got So Rich: Two More Billionaire Clients – Forbes
– Noam Chomsky Was Right About Epstein – Michael Tracey / Compact Mag
- Feb 11 – NY Times Reports Russian Capture of Ukrainian Cities Months After It Happened
Related:
– Zelensky Makes His Pitch to Trump – Simon Shuster / Atlantic
- Feb 12 – Russia’s ‘Collapsing’ Economy
- Feb 14 – Poison Dart Frogs Killer
Related:
– The Calculus of Conflict: How Russia’s Military Doctrine is Reshaping Modern Warfare [i] – Black Mountain Analysis
– New Western Reports Reveal Vast Russian Expansion in Barrel and Shell Production – Simplicimus
– Russia’s war in Ukraine has made its formidable air defenses an even tougher challenge – Business Insider
- Feb 13 – WSJ Debunks NYT’s “Ragtag Network Of Activist” Propaganda
Related:
– Leading Papers Call for Destroying Iran to Save It – FAIR
– U.S. Aircraft Carrier Will Be Sent to the Middle East From Venezuela, Officials Say (archived) – NY Times
– Iran Has More Options Up Its Sleeve Than Trump and Netanyahu Assume – Naked Capitalism
– Bloomberg’s $108 Oil as Worst Case Iran War Scenario: Too Optimistic? – Naked Capitalism
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Other issues:
Gaza:
- Israeli settlers injure at least 54 Palestinians in West Bank attacks – Aljazeerah
- Inside Netanyahu’s Distorted Protocols: Debunking His October 7 Narrative (archived) – Haartez
- Israel secretly backs armed militias in Gaza: Report – Anadolu
- Washington’s Gaza ‘master plan’: A mere PowerPoint presentation – The Cradle
- In Blow to Starmer, U.K. Ban on Pro-Palestinian Group Is Ruled Unlawful (archived) – NY Times
- A Mossad-Linked Israeli Org Is Trying To ‘Shut Down’ The Maple – Read The Maple
Perfidious Albion:
- EXCLUSIVE: Morgan McSweeney’s ‘inner circle’ is still trying to control Labour – The Canary
- EXCLUSIVE: Brits Spied on Racket, Other Journalists – The Racket
- How London unwittingly killed housebuilding (archived) – Financial Times
Europe:
- Wrecking-ball politics – German Foreign Policy
- Munich Security Conference Evangelizes European War – Simplicius
- Von der Leyen flips the blame for crippling EU economy back onto national leaders – Politico
The Bezzle
- The AI Data Center Financial Crisis – Ed Zitron
- AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It – Harvard Business Review
- Big tech accounting creates a blind spot in the AI boom – MSN/WSJ
Use as open (not related to the wars in Ukraine and Palestine) thread …